Jacob Stringer

Jacob Stringer is a housing researcher and campaigner, and a member of London Renters Union. All views expressed are personal.

As courts re-open, Britain’s renters must confront the power of landlords

“Alas, many middle class people are now invested in this relationship of domination.”

By Jacob Stringer

/ 17 Aug 2020

As courts re-open, Britain’s renters must confront the power of landlords

Why did anti-globalisation fail and anti-globalism succeed?

Centre-right parties showed themselves more willing to hook up with anti-globalism – no threat to the international economic order – than the centre-left parties had with anti-globalisation.

By Jacob Stringer

/ 26 Mar 2017

Brexit to nowhere? Finding hope in convivial institutions

People want control of their lives back. Given the right institutions to work with, they can care for each other and so begin to heal a divided nation.

By Jacob Stringer

/ 10 Jul 2016

Please mind the datachasm

They began to interpret things like him leaving the house without his mobile phone as indications that their suspicions were correct. Welcome to one half of the datachasm. Sleep safe.

By Jacob Stringer

/ 26 Jan 2015